This week (#38 of the year), Nvidia dominated the news with their GTC announcements. Top among them was the introduction of the long-awaited and rumored RTX 40 series and associated AD100 series GPUs known as the Ada Lovelace architecture. Everything about the AD100 is supersized—compare the current GPU with the previous generation. RTX 4090 RTX 3090 Difference Architecture Ada … Read more
Citing price increases and shrinking margins, EVGA quits Nvidia.
With the explosive growth in cloud compute workload and complexity, new segments are bringing unique workloads that require processing pixels, inference, analytics, rendering, and sending those pixels back to the client device to be viewed or for further analysis. These tasks are currently being done by separate discrete products in the cloud, and Intel hopes to integrate them in one … Read more
There is no metaverse—there will never be a metaverse. There are dozens of metaverses and soon probably hundreds. Which view you hold depends on the definition of what a metaverse is, and we repeat: There is no definition—there are several definitions. Where everyone and everything can interact seamlessly across physical and virtual worlds. The concept of a metaverse is developing, … Read more
This was the 34th year of the Hot Chips conference, which has traditionally been presented in Silicon Valley during August. The name “Hot” is a play on words for the weather and the performance of the latest designs. Hot Chips is like a second act to ISSCC during February in San Francisco. ISSCC is a formal academic research paper presentation … Read more
Qualcomm led the industry in introducing variable rate shading (VRS) with the Snapdragon 888 last September. Apple filed a patent on VSR in 2019, Samsung has it in their GPU, and Arm’s Immortalis-G715 introduced it in June of this year. With all that development, someone had to test it. Who better than the folks at Basemark?
Qualcomm led the industry in introducing variable rate shading (VRS) with the Snapdragon 888 last September. Apple filed a patent on VSR in 2019, Samsung has it in their GPU, and Arm’s Immortalis-G715 introduced it in June of this year. With all that development, someone had to test it. Who better than the folks at Basemark? So, Basemark launched its … Read more
Nvidia reported revenue for the second quarter ending July 31, 2022, of $6.7 billion, up 3% from a year ago and down 19% from the previous quarter. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.26, down 72% from a year ago and down 59% from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.51, down 51% from … Read more
This is the IEM, or Intel Extreme Masters. It is German esports organizer ESL’s desktop tournament series and is currently the longest-running global pro gaming tour in the world (established in 2006). At the ESL One event in Cologne, Germany, 15,000 fans paid to attend each day. Electronic sports, better known as esports, involves spectator competitive PC gaming tournaments … Read more
SPECviewperf 2020 v3.1 benchmark is a significant update.
Founded in 2020, Glenfly Technology Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, and has developed AMOLED driver products. In 2021, the company announced it would offer a graphics AIB based on a forthcoming dGPU by Zhaoxin (aka Tianshu Zhixin). Zhaoxin announced it would have a dGPU, the KX-6000 and 30000, in late 2020, built in 16 nm from TSMC. Glenfly … Read more
Has a Gen 12 CPU and Arc A380 discrete graphics
